MathGV is a mathematical function graphing software program for Windows XP, 2003 and Vista. It can plot 2 dimensional, parametric, polar, and 3 dimension functions.

The software interface is dialogue driven and allows changes to any setting at any time with immediate results. This instant visual feedback makes mathematical functions much easier to understand.

The software can be downloaded via the MathGV website.

Listed below is a selection of notable journals in Mathematical Sciences subscribed by NTU Library:

1.  Advances in Computational Mathematics
2.  American Journal of Mathematics
3.  Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
4.  Duke Mathematical Journal
5.  Journal of Algorithms
6.  Journal of Cryptology
7.  International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
8.  Mathematics of Computation
9.  Mathematical Finance
10. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
11. SIAM journal on Optimization
12. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

The NTU Library has recently subscribed and implemented the bX Recommender Service on our ezSearch system. It is part of our effort to make the system more beneficial to our users and to encourage sharing of useful references found in our subscribed resources with NTU peers or colleagues in the same area of research.

The bX Recommender is a new service that taps into the power of the networked scholarly community to generate recommendations based on article usage.

For example, on Amazon, users can view recommendations for books and other items sold on the site. Similarly, the bX Recommender Service provides recommendations for scholarly journal articles.

The steps to access the bX Recommender Service are as follows:
1. Login to ezSearch at http://ezsearch.ntu.edu.sg.
2. Do a QuickSearch by entering your search terms.
3. Click on the SFX icon besides an article that you are interested in the list of search results returned.
4. If there are recommendations for that article, you would be able to view them.

Zentralblatt MATH is a mathematics database subscribed by the NTU Library to support the University community on its research, teaching and learning activities.

It provides abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. The database contains more than 2.0 million entries drawn from more than 2,300 serials and journals and covers the period from 1868 to present.

NTU staff and students can click here to access the database.

Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility for UNIX, IBM OS/2, MS Windows, DOS, Macintosh, VMS, Atari and many other platforms.

It was originally intended as to allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data but has grown to support many other uses such as web scripting and integration. Gnuplot supports many types of plots in either 2D and 3D. It can draw using lines, points, boxes, contours, vector fields, surfaces and various associated text.

The software can be downloaded via the Gnuplot website.

(Source: News at Princeton, accessed on 7 September 2009)

Princeton researchers have beaten the present world record for packing the most tetrahedra into a volume.

In the cover story of the 13 August 2009 issue of Nature, Salvatore Torquato, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, and Yang Jiao, a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, report that they have bested the world record, set last year by Elizabeth Chen, a graduate student at the University of Michigan.

Finding the best way to pack the greatest quantity of a specifically shaped object into a confined space may sound simple, yet it consistently has led to deep mathematical concepts and practical applications, such as improved computer security codes.

NTU staff and students can click here to read the full text of published article in Nature.

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